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RE: Oxymorons
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"Quad bike" Richard English...
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November 06, 2002 22:55
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The theory is that, if you drink a small amount of whisky after a belly-full of beer all that will h......
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November 06, 2002 22:32
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Officially a shandy (or shandygaff) is beer and lemonade. If it's made with ginger beer then it's a ......
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October 28, 2002 09:44
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Quote: "Go" = "Scapa Flow" or "Scapa" is correct. Scapa Flow is where the Royal Navy has a large ba......
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October 23, 2002 14:18
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The definition in the beer dictionary is quite correct although less comprehensive than my own. Ric......
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October 23, 2002 13:54
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Did you know that, in the entire panoply of Sherlock Holmes stories, that phrase was NEVER used? Ri......
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October 10, 2002 09:30
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Quote "In the UK paw, pour and pore are homophones" Whe I was in primary school (I would have been......
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October 04, 2002 12:06
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The posting in the Rainbows thread prompted me to start a thread about that underrated verse form, t......
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October 01, 2002 03:12
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Your confusion is understandable. There are four quite different words spelt gill, and there are tw......
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October 01, 2002 02:13
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This is one recipe where the instruction, "weigh out the ingredients carefully" applies in full meas......
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September 27, 2002 01:40
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Arnie's definitions are as I learnt them and I believe correct for UK English. The OED suggests tha......
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September 26, 2002 10:10
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Quote "Why would the brewers not use plain, ordinary unsprouted grain? What is the purpose of sprou......
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September 26, 2002 01:28
RE: Are you sure?
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Are you speaking of US English or British English? The answers are different for each language. In......
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September 26, 2002 01:18
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It is quite common to read, in the less worthy press, statements along the lines of: "...Half the sc......
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September 22, 2002 01:11
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Common, but usually incorrect and permissable only when needed to avoid ambiguity as in my "U's; US;......
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September 21, 2002 11:25
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This has been discussed at great length on the FOTA board and the usual bugbear is the apostrophe's ......
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September 19, 2002 13:57
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As Mr Bumble said! I will, but later as I'm away today. Richard English...
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September 18, 2002 23:03
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I will research although I know, when I last tried, I couldn't find anything except the sites of mod......
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September 18, 2002 12:07
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I didn't mean to imply that pauses are the only devices that good public speakers use. There are, of......
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September 16, 2002 01:30
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I heard somewhere that you could tell a person's nationality by the way in which he would react if a......
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